Russia's most famous spy, Anna Chapman, has opted to spin corporate Russia's worldview in a different way following her arrest in the US last year: she's going to turn to financial journalism.

Chapman announced her new role on May 31 when she penned a letter to readers, in Russian, that she was hired as editor-in-chief of Venture Business News, a monthly covering venture capital, private equity and M&A.

"We have many creative, and truly gifted innovators in Russia," Chapman writes. "Even by the biased estimates of Western sociologists, Russia has the second largest most innovative social class in the world. But its role and significance in the political life of the country is unacceptably low. We must give them the freedom to be leaders in the country's modernization, and get them to lead a new management system in a new economy based on the achievements of the mind," she wrote, adding that a new Russian economy needed to rely more on the entrepreneurial spirit of its citizens, rather than on "speculation and commodity freeloading."

Chapman said she would try to increase the fledgling paper's circulation and improve use of multimedia for its content.

Chapman will also have her own column, called Field News, where she will opine on major events in the Russian investment business.

Chapman and 10 Russians were arrested in the US in June 2010 on allegations of espionage. In July, a month later, they were sent back to Russia in exchange for four men accused by the Kremlin of spying for foreign intelligence services there.

Last October, Chapman was hired as a consultant at Fondservicebank by its President, Alexander Volovnik. Starting in January, she became a TV host of REN TV's "World Mysteries with Anna Chapman" show.

In an interview with the BBC in March, Chapman said she would like to produce 3D TV shows in Russia. Adventures in Venture Capitalism in 3D coming soon to a Moscow theater...